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Like every year, this year’s monsoon caught the city authorities with their pants down. The roads got flooded, then dissolved and now it feels like you’re driving on the moon.Only there’s water… lots of it, and you don’t have the benefit of low gravity.

Some of the roads built by the ancient Romans still exist today! But our roads need to be paved over every year. Is this an advancement of science or a yearly scam by the contractors who build these things?

Also how can a paved road dissolve so easily? Is salt a major component of road construction? Is acid rain already such a problem (then why is it not burning our skins off?). In this modern age when we’ve successfully teleported atoms, and the Large Hadron Collidor is about to create an Earth-eating black hole, two questions continue to mock my understanding:

Every year we listen to the government telling us that the roads have washed away due to excessive monsoon and b***s*** like that. And it doesn’t even rain that much in India ! Do they really think we’ll continue to believe them ! Countries like Singapore, Malaysia have much more rain than we do, and they roads which are thousand times better ! I mean, seriously, if this is not a scam, then what is.

@mar00ned: Oh I’m doing a Delhi Vs Bombay comic very soon… And it wont be about roads.

@Sharninder: It’s obviously a scam. A bigger scam is the road divider maintenance spam. Road agencies (read: contractors) take out the divider stones and put in new ones. They repaint an already painted fence. Then they put in new stones again. All this while the road looks like it took in an artillery barrage, but hey! The divider should look neat.

That’s a very low maintenance road divider! What we need in our roads is something that has to be cleaned, painted, rubbed, taken out, put back in every 2 months!

Specially those shoulder-height fences near Connaught Place. Tall, but not SO tall that a dedicated man can’t climb over it. And many do, in the midst of zipping cars and totally risking limb and balls… they climb and squeeze through the divider. True Indian spirit.

If there was a fence crossing event in the Olympics, we’d all be Abhinav Bindra!

whadya mean, ‘risking life and balls’?? you sexist cartoonist [math: sexist cartoonist => taking ist common, we have, (ist)*(sex+cartoonist)]
I have seen many a doughty auntyji clamber over the divider on KG Marg with nary a glance to the left, or right, landing often with a soft plop, cushioned only by tissues adipose . Onwards, proclaim the she-dilliwalahs; as they boldly mount the great yellow divide.(about 8 feet away from the subway)

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An Indian webcomic about Life, and its Irritations. There are no stories, no characters, no songs, no Saases and no Bahus. There’s not much humor or artistic ability either. A new comic every few days. Read More...

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